"Īccording to Rebecca Kwan, who pitched in $500, "You have to understand how we feel - we came from communist China and we managed to come here and we appreciate it here so much. ' They believe the Proud Boys are on the vanguard of protecting the country from a communist army controlled by Antifa and the Black Lives Matter movement - claims that have been widely debunked. "Some Chinese Americans have bought in to the rhetoric spread by the Proud Boys, conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones and conservative commentators that America is under attack from communism," Carless wrote. The answer, he suggests, has to do with the Proud Boy's antipathy toward communism, which is shared by many in the Asian community. In all, almost 1,000 people with Chinese surnames gave about $86,000, which the led USA Today's Will Carless to write, "Why would people from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and members of the Chinese American community, donate to an organization with deep ties to white supremacists, whose members flash white power signals and post racist memes on social media?" Then Hao Xu gave $20, followed shortly by $25 from a Ying Pei. A few minutes later, someone named Jun Li donated $100.
USA Today is reporting that, based on information provided to them by the whistleblower site Distributed Denial of Secrets, $106,107 was raised for medical costs with the bulk coming on late in the evening of Dec 17th.Īccording to the report, "A donor named Li Zhang gave $100.
Of note, the reports states, is the fact that more than 80 percent of the money that came through the Proud Boys' GoSendGo crowdfunding page came from contributors with Chinese surnames. street skirmishes in late December - just weeks before the Jan. According to a report from USA Today, the Proud Boys were the recipients of a flood of donations after they were involved in Washington, D.C.
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